to medusa<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I wonder if you ever thought,<\/p>\n
As you lay violated on Athena\u2019s doorstep,<\/p>\n
That you would become an unwitting icon<\/p>\n
Of unabashed female strength and power.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If you ever imagined a world<\/p>\n
Where beings bearing a feminine identity<\/p>\n
Could fight for her rights to beat back<\/p>\n
Against the suppos\u00e9d hero defining her.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
If you ever gloried in your ability<\/p>\n
To turn lustful flesh into rock, defying him<\/p>\n
Who sees you as a challenge to overpower<\/p>\n
And nothing else, not heeding your hate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
I wonder if you ever mourned<\/p>\n
Your snakeskin sisters who used goddess<\/p>\n
Given gifts to take away Choice, that<\/p>\n
Elusive thing, away from the less fortunate.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But I know one thing-<\/p>\n
The patriarchal world is ever-present<\/p>\n
But it is not so powerful that we cannot<\/p>\n
Retake and reshape it into one where the<\/p>\n
Law is set, not in their stone, but in ours.<\/p>\n
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